Devlin ‘Let It Go’ ft Labrinth Monday 23rd January 2011

‘Let It Go’ brings together two of the most potent forces in UK urban music to create an explosive future music single. Devlin is Dagenham’s 21-year-old lyrical prodigy. A lightening quick flow peppered with one-liners, cathartic street stories and fevered imagery. His fêted debut ‘bud, sweat & beers’ peaked at #5 in the iTunes Chart on its release in November 2010. ‘Let It Go’ is his follow up single to the Top 20 hit ‘Runaway’. With a UK headline tour planned for February and over 18 million Devlin related views on Youtube, the country is discovering the grime scene’s most thoughtful spitter one line, one video view at a time. Producer and vocalist on this single is 21-year-old Labrinth. In the brave new world where UK hip hop talent is receiving the attention it deserves, Labrinth has emerged as a star producer. He is the man behind Tinie Tempah’s #1 single ‘Pass Out’. ‘Let It Go’ documents a relationship in turbulence. Labrinth weaves together hyperactive guitar parts, internal-organ rumbling sub bass, a half-step snare and a soaring R&B chorus into an addictive whole. Devlin commands the track, sketching the enraged back and forth of a relationship with writerly skill.
Devlin Video Clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2xThOiuMaU
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
‘this year’s absolute must-have; conceptual, clever and conscious’ i-D
‘dazzling verbal dexterity’ Vogue
‘one of the few MCs daring to say something different’ Dazed & Confused
‘biting and intelligent…all eyes are on Devlin’ The Sun
‘highly complex and poetic’ Drowned in Sound
‘scabrously witty and precociously talented’ The Observer New Review
‘whip-smart Eminem of Essex…caustic urban realism…undeniable strife-born brilliance’ Q